Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, long at the forefront of efforts to prevent any expansion of voter access in America's second-largest state, is under fire after the state sent law enforcement to search and intimidate Latino activists, including a candidate for state House, as part of an investigation into "ballot harvesting." Tensions erupted in 1880, when Texas backed Democratic presidential …
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